Jesse Harris Quotes

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like the record we did with Logic because Scott Harding did a great job mixing it. He's really a killing engineer.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

The records I make, I'm there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the drums to the editing of everything to the production to the vocals to the artwork.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical.

I never really work on just one CD - I'm recording, recording.

I think, with production, I pay very close attention. 'Cause that's my favorite thing in music. That's the whole drive. That's the reason.

Making records is hard work.

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.